Smyrna times., 1887-07-20
SMYRNA DEL. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON uIX % loo
The Presidents Home Life,


In our Washington dispatches will b,
found and interesting description O
the home life, habits and occupation
OF President Cleveland at the Execu
tive Mansion in Washington. Lik,
other Presidents, he has been the vic
tim of much exaggeration and witles,
rldlcule at the hands of thoughtles,
scr6lers, but the actual routine of his
daily life exhibits him as a simple. IN.
"nected gentleman of industrious
meVhodlcal habits, who discharges the
complex duties of his great Office with
business like promptness and an unfIag.
glhg energy which has been a matter
LOT astOnlshment to officials in Wash
lhgton accustomed to the easy going
methods OF some of his predecessors. A
peasant picture is also given of Mrs
CleVeland's home life, exhibiting her
as typical young American housewife
cultivated and refined in her tastes bnt
taxing thoroughly practical interests
IN the affairs of her home. There is
IN TACT, happy coordination between
the unaffected tastes and occupations
OF husband and wife which carries with
II an impressive lesson for eVerv Amer.
lean household. Without the least ef
Iort TO present an example" the Pres.
ldent and his wife, by simply leading
the kind of life which gratifes their
natural tastes, uphold to public view
The best and purest type of domestic
lie IN American homes. The Prasi-
dent is busy, Woodworking man of
affairs, like thousands of his fellow
cltlzens, and his wife is a simple. unof.
feeted lady, whose tastes and epiov-
ments are those of her fellow-countrv
women. There is no ruler in the world
whose position is more exalted tbon
That of the President of the limited
states. He is the chosen chef execu-
i've OF free people, whose suiTiaOps
nave raised him to his high estate not
because OF any accident of birth or for
tune, but because he seemed to a ma
lorlty OF voters to possess the qualities
pest fltted for the worthy discharge of
MS position. Mr.. Cleveland has shown
-he true American conception of rank
md station by discharging all its duties
win proper regard for the proprieties
ma traditions of his office, while at the
anne time avoiding all the aunkevism
ma unnecessary display and ostentation
II many royal courts whose aetuaI
'ower and authority are not to be com.
jared in dignity and importance with 3
ne ordinary functions of our Chief Ex-
cutlVe. 1t is this blending in his life +
the White House of the practical
-merlcan idea of self-government and +
oclal equality with the artificial de. +
lands OF official etiquette which affords a
le great mass of his fellow-countrv. 9
len the assurance that in President q
ieVeland they are represented in the Il
residential Office by one of themselves Fl
thoroughly typical American. whose 9,
lief anxiety is to give the country a 9,
ltrlotio, business like and scrupulous-
clean administration. Unlike the
liers IN monarchical or despotic coun-
les the President is accessible. under
oper restrictions, to all the people, \,
ID the visitors at his receptions are :,
avn from every rank and condition n n
life. He is in immediate contact all =
time with the vital forces of the ~
ton, the bone and sinew of the re- " :"
blic' and he draws his inspiration %
conception of duty, not from the so e
lsoned atmosphere of a corrunt - -
lrt, but from the stimulating cor. ~ ~
ting and purifying influences which -
waited to him from every quarter 49,
The country, and to which he volun. - -
lily expose himself in his unrestrain- 90
intercourse with his fellowcitizens- -
ltimOre Sun. ni'